State v. Robertson

The indictment is for keeping a disorderly-house, and the exceptions apparent upon the record are to the admission of certain testimony offered to support the charge. These we proceed to consider.

1. A witness for the state who had frequently passed the defendant’s shop in the early morning and late at night* and had seen there drinking and disorderly crowds, was asked whether the female members of his family were permitted to go along the road leading by the shop on their way to the Sunday school, on account of its character. The testimony on objection was received as some evidence of…